I hate teenagers and the bus!! !

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Today I rode the big bus and THE TEENAGERS WERE WAY TOO LOUD. I have sensitive hearing when I am stressed out and they were really loud. They swear on the bus. Not quietly so no one can hear them, they swear at the top of their lungs. They also get in trouble for talking at school so why do it on the bus. The bus is still school property. Also they throw things. Also one kid threw something so the bus driver went back to our school and made the kid throw it out. I think that is great but he could of done more. I also know he is probably not deaf so he could hear them swear so why didn't he just report the kids. They have been doing this since I was on the bus in the sixth grade. I'm now in the seventh grade. I asked my mom to get me on the little bus because at least there will be some peace and quiet there.
Also kids are also bullied on the bus. My friend lets call her friend 1 was called fat on the bus. So her dad reported it. The principal said they would take them off the bus. So a couple days later they were still on the bus. So her dad said in an email why are the kids still on the bus? So our principal replied with they have a new punishment but we can't tell you what that is. Translation NOTHING HAPPENED. Kids should be suspended or banned from the bus. It would make the parents annoyed then they would probably say, "LISTEN UP (Insert Name Here) YOU WILL NOT DO THIS NO ELECTRONICS OR FRIENDS FOR A WEEK. ALSO YOU CAN'T GO TO THE SCHOOL DANCE. SO DON'T DO THIS AGAIN!! !! What I am saying is my school doesn't enforce the rules on the bus. Has anyone experience something similar?

Sympathy, HF.

I had styrofoam pellets lobbed at me on the bus once. My brother used to join in and laugh, the little brat.

I know what you mean about the noise: it's not even like people are just having conversations, it's like it's contest of who can make the most noise. It's ridiculous!

seconded.

You think you have it rough, you should try being the bus driver. You get very little support from you managers, you do not get any support from the school administration (unless it serves their purposes). Punishment is rarely done and when done, again it is either to the wrong person or supports their purposes. The police do not support you when people do not follow the traffic rules. The courts do not support you. And heaven forbid you have to call the police because a student is acting unruly. It gets the paper and you get in trouble for not controlling the students.

I was given a after school route in my 2nd year of driving. The route sheet was in such shambles that I could not figure out who was who on the bus. This one girl started cursing me out and treating me worse than the worst EBD students that were on my regular special needs route. She refused to give me her name and kept giving me false names. The dispatcher eventually told me just drop her off where she said to just to get rid of her without calling the police. I told the manager the next day that I refuse to do that route again. The police were called to that route a year ago for fighting and from what I hear, that route still has issues.

I can understand where you are coming from. Just do not expect much change.

I really feel for you kids today. The only time in my life that I rode a school bus was when I was 10 and 11. We entered the bus in an orderly fashion, stayed seated, and spoke in "indoor voices". That meant you could talk to the person next to you, but shouting across seats was too loud. There were two 6th graders (the oldest kids on the bus, 11 or 12 years old) who were trained as "safety patrols." Their job was to usher the people onto the bus, from back to front, to get them safely off the bus, and to make sure it stayed quiet. If people started getting loud, the safety patrol would say, "Quiet down!" People easily heard the safety patrol because it NEVER got all that loud. And people obeyed. I remember one day, everyone got a bit too loud, and didn't obey the safety patrol. Old Mrs. Whipp, the 70-year-old bus driver, pulled over (it was a rural road) and stopped the bus. She told us she refused to drive another foot with us carrying on like that, and if she heard another sound, she would turn around and drive right back to the school and have the principal call all of our parents to pick us up. We were completely silent on the way home. No one dreamed of talking back or disobeying her, because no one wanted to get in trouble with their parents.

Nowadays, parents would get their knickers in a knot about something like that. "I had to take time off work to pick little Johnny up from school! You can't make me do that!"

I've ridden on school buses for my kids' field trips, and I'm appalled that the kids are allowed to yell and shout. It's a mystery to me why schools put up with that. I think it has something to do with squelching the little darling's creativity or free speech or something.

By the way, as a student with AS, you have a legal right to not have to put up with that. If, because of your "disability", the behavior of other people on the bus is getting you stressed out enough that it is making you dread going to school, or unable to focus on your school work, they need to find a way to get you to school (at their expense) in a way that enables you to be educated appropriately. You might want to discuss this with your parents or teacher. (Don't be surprised if neither of them know about the legal rights thing. Most people don't. But the principal will know, and if he/she knows about the problems you are having, he/she will probably have no trouble finding a solution.)

Cool, I never knew I had a legal right. The bus does make me dread going on it on fridays. Also I wish I was on the bus you were on elderwanda because we don't have a bus monitor on our bus. If we had a bus monitor probably she or he would report them all.

We had a bus monitor, but they never did anything, they were often the worst ones!

i always disliked the buses very much when i had to catch one to the train station where i caught a train to go to another bus which took me to school.

teenage boys sounded like geese honking when they laughed or expressed some other energy in a vocal way. their voices were breaking and sounded atrocious to me (my voice did not break until long after them).

the main thing i hated was the thought that they were all breathing the same air that i was breathing. i knew that every breath i took must have contained a percentage of air that some of them exhaled recently.
i always slid the window open, and put my mouth where i knew i was breathing clean air.
others ridiculed me for this, but i was not going to pull my head back in to argue with them.

on some cold winter mornings, there was condensation on the windows from peoples breath.
this disgusted me so much i felt like vomiting when i looked at it.
all that condensation was everyone's "lung sweat" in my mind.

some kids drew their name in it and that freaked me out that they touched it.
i used to breathe through my hanky on cold mornings on the bus with those idiots aboard.

also, some of them were flatulent at times. i definitely had to get my head out the window or get off the bus immediately if someone farted.
they used to laugh at my reaction, and deliberately try to fart to elicit a reaction from me.

once i got very angry and they stopped farting, but i guess they could not stop breathing, so i had to live with that, as long as my window was open, and that included times when it was very cold and windy.
other kids may have wanted me to shut my window, but i would not shut it unless they shut their breathing.

the loudness of their stupid conversations also made me want to get my head out side to hear the wind.

i made every excuse i could not to catch the main bus. i usually was intentionally late, so i caught the next bus with no other kids on it. there was drama from the teachers as to why i got there late, but i had fun giving them bizarre excuses.

I remember shouting "SHUT THE F*** UP!" one day on a middle school bus.

A female student in high school also lied to me with a seat offer and told me I was a 'goddamn freak.' Can't I just get over that? Why do I have to hear it in my mind almost every morning?

My bus in middle school was horrible, too. Every morning, they would scream so loud in my ears, I would have hearing problems for the entire following hour. And they constantly harrassed me, too. There was this one day in seventh grade that this boy, Grant, said something really nasty to my face. I chased him down and beat the crap out of him on the back of the bus until he was crying. I got bus suspension for three days, but to this day, it was definitely worth it. He never messed with me again after that, so that was one idiot off the list.

In ninth grade, I had the world's meanest bus driver. I was always polite to her, but she would treat me like crap. There was this one day at school where I had had a really bad day and when I was getting off the bus, she rudely scoffed at me and she said extremely rudely, "Can't you even say good-bye?!" And she, of course, lived in my most hated town here in Indy. Figures. I had her once in the summer as a bus driver for our 4-H field trip and she was less than thrilled to see me again...

Luckily, in twelfth grade, I had the world's best bus driver ever. Every day was a party on the bus (Seriously, we all brought chips and salsa one time!). She would let us all be as loud as we wanted, she would turn the radio up for our favorite songs, and she let us all do whatever we wanted, which was really great, because I was almost always the last one off the bus. She also really enjoyed talking to me every day and she'd let me break the rules while others would get in trouble for the exact same thing. We had a lot in common and she really loved my house, which probably helped. I miss that bus so much nowadays. I have some really great memories now thanks to it.

I wish you the best of luck with your future busses. Middle school won't last forever and the high school kids are way better on the bus, I promise you. Just hang in there, alright?

I completely sympathise with you HappyFox. I get the bus every day to work at roughly the same time and these school kids get on the bus as well. They play music on their phones really loud and they shout and swear even louder. Then you get one kid who will shout even louder to be heard causing another to shout even louder to be heard and so on. The sentences that they do form are filled with swear words and usually end with the word 'innit'. There is usually one of them who tells someone that they are going to get smacked in the f*****g mouth, whereas another will go on to shout about how they are going to sleep with someone in the class above them etc. All making for great morning conversation. They should have all been drowned at birth.

two incidents come to mind

1. my sister and her friend told me how they laughed at someone on the bus. i cant get ANGRY with her, but still i told her like "oh my god YOU were a noisy annoying brat on the bus? come on, you know better >:I "

2. some teens behind me, were talking about their day off from school: "since when is may 1st a free day? whats this, some new fad? ive never heard of this."
i wanted to get up, and tell them. i REALLY REALLY wanted to, i was *THIS* close to doing it